Arena

Prerelease beta-3 has been released. (The
previous versions beta-2 and beta-1 are still available in binary form.) It supports elements of HTML3, including tables, math and experimental
style sheets. There are bugs and shortcomings, so be sure to set you
expectations accordingly.

Background

Dave Raggett first implemented a browser to render documents
conforming to the HTML+ specifications which he worked on. HTML+ is
now known as HTML3, and Arena's primary purpose is still to be a
testbed for HTML3 documents. From July 94, Håkon W Lie of CERN worked with Dave to extend Arena
in several directions. First, it was modified to take advantage of the
library of common code, now known as the W3C
Reference Library. Also, Arena was ported to all major unix
platforms and made available on the net. Henrik Frystyk Nielsen was
responsible for the library while at CERN and has continued this work
for W3C at MIT. From release 0.96, Arena has
included experimental support for Cascading Style Sheet, and Håkon Lie
continued this work for W3C at INRIA/Sophia Antipolis. Yves Lafon has
joined the team and is completing support for forms and style sheets.
We're grateful to many external
collaborators.

Plans

Other testbed envoironements are likely to take over Arena's role
within W3C, and we do not foresee putting much development resources
into Arena at this point.

Platforms

Arena runs in X11/unix environments.

Precompiled Binaries

Binaries are available
for linux, sun (solaris and sunos), dec and sgi.

Source code

The source code of Arena is now available under the standard W3C copyright.